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Bard College Catalogue 2009-2010
2009-2010
Fellows of the Bard Center
Bard Center fellows, who serve active terms of varying lengths, present seminars and lectures that are open to the public and teach or direct research by Bard undergraduates. Fellows are chosen on the basis of special achievement in the arts, sciences, literature, philosophy, history, or social studies. The following prominent scholars and artists currently serve as fellows: Emmanuel Dongala, chemist and novelist. Currently visiting professor of French at Bard and professor of French and chemistry at Bard College at Simon's Rock: The Early College, he has been dean of academic affairs and chair of the chemistry department at the University of Brazzaville, Congo, where his research focused on devising a reliable method for the evaluation of toxic cyanogenic glucosides in cassava, the main food staple of the Congo. He is the author of Un fusil dans la main, un poème dans la poche (1973), which received the Ladislas Domandi Prize for best French novel by a nonresident; Jazz et vin de palme (1982); Le feu des origines (1987), which received the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire and the Grand Prix de la Fondation de France; and Les petits garçons naissent aussi des étoiles (1998). Gidon Eshel, climatologist, geophysicist, and environmentalist. A member of the science faculty at Bard College at Simon's Rock: The Early College, Dr. Eshel is a recipient of the NOAA/UCAR Global and Climate Change Fellowship and research grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation. His technical work focuses on mechanisms of climate variability in the Earth's subtropics, climate predictability, statistical climatology, and simple numerical modeling of geophysical fluids. With his colleague Pamela Martin of the University of Chicago, where he served as an assistant professor of geophysics, he authored "Diet, Energy and Global Warming," which is on the list of the American Geophysical Union's most downloaded papers. Stephen Graham, publisher, theatrical producer, and professor of writing and British literature. Founder and executive director of the New York Theatre Workshop (1979 86) and copublisher of Ecco Press (1993 98), he has previously taught at Columbia University and the New School for General Studies. Philip B. Kunhardt III, author, producer. As director of Kunhardt Productions, he has written and produced many PBS, NBC, and History Channel programs and conducted interviews with some of the seminal historians and public figures of our time, including President Gerald Ford, Edward Kennedy, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Theodore Sorensen, and Anthony Lewis. He is a cofounder of The Meserve Kunhardt Foundation, an archival preservation and educational organization. Among his books are Looking for Lincoln (Knopf, 2008), The American President (coauthor; Riverhead Press, 1999), and P. T. Barnum, America's Greatest Showman (coauthor; Knopf, 1995). Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, historian, author, and educator. The Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education at Harvard University and former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she is the author or editor of nine books, cochair of the National Research Council's Committee on Teacher Preparation, and president of the board of Concord Academy. From 1994 to 2002, she taught at New York University, where she was founding chair of the Department of the Humanities and the Social Sciences in the Steinhardt School of Education. She is a Bard Distinguished Fellow at Bard College at Simon's Rock: The Early College, where she is establishing the Bard Center for Education and Democracy. Bradford Morrow, novelist, poet, critic, and editor. His published work includes the novels Come Sunday, The Almanac Branch (a finalist for the 1992 PEN/Faulkner Award), Trinity Fields, Giovanni's Gift, and Ariel's Crossing, and the poetry collections Posthumes: Selected Poems 1977 1982, Danae's Progress, The Preferences, and A Bestiary. He is a founding editor of Conjunctions, the widely respected literary journal published at Bard, where he is professor of literature, and he is the editor of several volumes of the poems and essays of Kenneth Rexroth. Jacob Neusner, scholar. A prolific writer on Judaic studies and the relationship between Judaism and Christianity, he has held academic appointments at universities throughout the world; has been a member of the American Academy of Religion, National Council on the Humanities, and National Council on the Arts; and is the founding editor of the Brown Judaic Studies series, editor in chief of South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism, and editor of the Encyclopedia of Judaism (Brill, 1999). The recipient of numerous academic awards and honorary degrees, he is currently the holder of an endowed chair, Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism at Bard College. Binyavanga Wainaina, writer of fiction, essays, memoirs. Received the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's most prestigious literary award; other honors include a Lannen Foundation Fellowship (2007), Chevening Scholarship (2003 04), and a special award for contributions to Kenyan literature from the Kenya Publishers Association (2002). He has published short fiction in One Story, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly, Wasafiri, and other journals, and essays and feature articles in Vanity Fair, National Geographic, Harpers, Granta, New York Times Magazine, and Bidoun, among others. He is the founding editor and excecutive director of Kwani?, Africa's foremost literary journal; a regular contributor to Sunday Times, South Africa's largest newspaper; and the director of Bard College's Chinua Achebe Center for African Languages and Literature.
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